Turning the Tide

Introduction and Table of Contents

May 14, 2011

I am Robert Riversong, prophet ^[1], teacher, guide, midwife ^[2]

for a world struggling to be born.

You are a spark of the universal flame. Welcome to the journey.

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I live on a subsistence income and this site is my gift to you – if you are moved to reciprocate:

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Einstein’s 1948 Letter on Zionist Fascism: A Letter to the NY Times, signed by 28 prominent American Jews (including Hannah Arendt, widely considered one of the most important political philosophers of the twentieth century and specializing in totalitarianism), warning the American Jewish and Zionist communities about the fascistic origins and tendencies of the political party that later became the Likud, which still controls Israel..

Men, Women and the Gender War:

When Progressive Social Change Becomes Regressive Ideology: From Women’s Liberation to Cultural Misandry – ReHonoring Masculinity & Achieving Gender Justice

Misandric Feminism vs. Progressive Gender Equality (excerpt of above)

Male Victims of Sexual Violence (also an excerpt of the first essay)

Yellow Journalism and the Meme of “Rape Culture” – Rolling Stone and U-VA Gang Rape

Dear President Sullivan – letter from 17 attorneys involved with campus sexual assault claims throughout America, detailing specific reasons why they “are concerned that the University’s Proposed Student Sexual Misconduct Policy is both vastly over inclusive in attempting to define prohibited conduct and ill equipped to guarantee a procedure for resolving allegations that is fair and impartial”.

It’s Time for a U-VA Apology – Op-Ed from a 25-year U-VA professor and his U-VA junior son

Journalistic Fabulism and Ideological Agendas – the Sabrina Rubin Erdely Story

New Puritanism – New Paternalism – The “Rape Culture” Narrative Demeans Women, Demonizes Men, and Turns Universities into Witch Hunt Tribunals

Dear Senators – letter from 20 attorneys critical of the Campus Accountability and Safety Act (S. 2692)

Sexual Assault and Justice: Can we reconcile the belated attention to rape on campus with due process? by Nancy Gertner, feminist lawyer, retired federal judge and Harvard Law professor

The Pendulum Reverses – Again – The Betrayal of Liberty on America’s Campuses & Men Strike Back against Title IX Tribunals

HELP for DOE Regulatory Excess – A Senate Task Force Report Recommends Scaling Back the Mountain of Regulations Strangling Higher Education Institutions

Men are Twice-Raped – Domestically and Globally, Men and Boys are Victims of Sexual Violence at rates Equal to those of Women, and are Assumed to be Villains whenever a Woman Accuses

Two Sexual Assault Studies Contradict Stereotypes

Feminism’s Sexual Mythology: Patriarchy = Rape Culture

A Model of Campus Gender-Based Harassment – The Columbia University “Mattress” Story

A Case Study in “Politically-Correct” Reactionary Response – The Duke Lacrosse Team Stripper Rape Hoax

When the Megaphone becomes the Gavel – Two legal experts on sex discrimination law and procedure argue that the current Title IX mandates for America’s colleges and universities are legally unsupportable and both practically and ethically indefensible.

Two Over-Privileged Millennials Engage in Sex and Get F-cked – The Stanford “Model” Student and her Silicon Valley Mentor

Insurance Industry Revelations and Prescriptions about Campus Sexual Assault

The Feminist Movement has Cannibalized Its Own Core Values and Become Its Own Worst Enemy

The Rape Culture Meme – It’s to authentic human culture what genetically modified corn is to maize.

Illiberalism & Hypocrisy on America’s Campuses – Stifling Free Expression in Deference to the Sensibilities of Self-Declared Victimhood

Emancipation From Feminism – My Personal Journey in the New Left and A Dissident View on Feminism

AAUP Slams DOE Title IX Excesses – America’s University Professors Slam DOE and College Administrations for Sacrificing the 1st Amendment & Due Process

America’s Gun Culture

Lead, Crime & Societal Breakdown – A Cautionary Tale of Unintended Consequences

Guns, Race, the Law & Public Opinion – The Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman Case

The Guns of Columbine

Ceremonial Violence – School Rampage Shootings

The NRA Story: From Rifle Club to Extremist Gun Rights Lobby: How the National Rifle Association evolved from a Shooting Club to a Terrorist Organization

District of Columbia v. Heller – A Radical Decision that Created a Middle Path

The Real Second Amendment

The Definitive Analysis of the 2nd Amendment

Cliven Bundy – Folk Hero or Scapegoat?

Range War Redux – Bundy Boys In Oregon

The New Anti-Federalists: The Wellspring of the Bundy Sagebrush Insurrection

Sandy Hook: The Real Story

Fighting Back Against Sandy Hook Hoaxers

The Isla Vista Rampage & The Abuse of Tragedy for Ideological Agendas

Trouble in the Heartland – Ferguson MO

Ethics Complaint to the Office of the Chief Disciplinary Counsel against Prosecutor McCulloch and his two assistants

Guns In America – Just the Facts

On the 50th anniversary of the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy:

The Coup d’État against JFK: The CIA Killed Peace in 1963

JFK’s Race for Peace

JFK & Fidel Castro – The Promise of Revolutionary Co-Existence

CIA Conspiracy to Kill JFK – from JFK and the Unspeakable

Mark Lane’s Brief in Defense of Lee Harvey Oswald

The Jack Ruby Connection

The JFK Assassination – Official Complicity

The JFK Assassination – Inconsistencies with the Lone Gunman Theory

JFK – The Assassin’s Rifle & The “Magic Bullet”

Assassination Science Exposes Official Complicity & Cover-Up and Names the Assassins

JFK Assassination Plan A – The Chicago Plot

The (Too) Many Faces of Lee Harvey Oswald

The Strange and Revelatory Saga of Rose Cheramie

The Threads of Conspiracy Unravel

L. Fletcher Prouty’s Letter to Jim Garrison (an insider’s exposé of the CIA)

RFK – The Other Kennedy Assassination

An Act of State – The Assassination of Martin Luther King (a talk by Dr. William F. Pepper)

My other blogs are:

Riversong HouseWright – A Home for Sensible Homes (Riversong’s Radical Reflections on Shelter)

aVERT – a Vertical Emergency Response Training

Notes:

[1] There is a generalized misperception in these modern, “post-prophetic” days about what it means to be a prophet. The most common misunderstanding is that it displays some kind of arrogance to label oneself a “prophet”. But nothing could be further from the truth.

One does not decide to become a prophet, as one might choose to take on a profession. One is given the role by the Spirit of the Universe, and can choose only to accept it in humility or to reject one’s destiny. The calling often comes in the midst of some sort of Vision Quest, as it did in my case. And to accept the role of seeing and describing what most cannot see, are afraid to confront, and spend their lives in hiding from, is to accept being an outcast. As it has been said, a prophet is never welcome in his own time.

But I was also born into a prophetic tradition. My direct lineal ancestor, Yaakov Yitzchak of Lublin (in what is now Poland but was then part of Bohemia), also known as the Choseh (seer or visionary) of Lublin (1745-1815), is considered to be among the greatest of Hebrew prophets, on par with the biblical Isaiah. And I have always accepted my destiny regardless of the personal cost.

An essay which expands on my own understanding of the role of prophet in the modern world is Of Prophets and Hope.

[2] Socrates, through the writings of Plato, understood that knowledge was eternal and available to every soul, that the trauma of birth causes a forgetting, and that only through an act of anamnesis (from Greek ana “back” + mimneskesthai “call to mind”) can we remember what we always knew.

The Socratic method, then, was a means of helping others re-member their dis-membered soul, of giving birth to the eternal knowledge (logos) that was corrupted by our bodily birth – and therefore a true teacher or guide is but a midwife, assisting in the rebirth of what was always most deeply and eternally real.

Knowledge, as differentiated from “true belief” (doxa, “opinion”) and from dogma (imposed belief), can be achieved through katharsis (“cleansing” or “purification”), by contemplating with the soul (noesis), and experiencing gnosis (spiritual knowing). This is somewhat like the maxim of Sherlock Holmes: “When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”

As a midwife in the Socratic sense, I do not traffic in mere opinions (doxa), challenge any and all beliefs (dogma), and accept as true only that which can be known, either by the rational exercise of intelligence or by direct and immediate perception – what some today call Heart Knowledge.

Turning the Tide

Introduction and Table of Contents

May 14, 2011

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